477521 - Timeout dialog appears after canceling out of Subscribe window

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Phil Miller]

I discovered this in the process of reporting 477517

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create an IMAP account with a server that resolves, but won't respond
2. Open the Subscribe window for the account
3. Watch it spin for a bit
4. Press the 'Cancel' button

Expected result:
1. Subscribe window closes
2. I hear nothing more about it

Actual result:
1. 'netstat -tp' shows that a connection from thunderbird-bin to imap.gmail.com:143 remains in SYN_SENT for about a minute
2. A dialog box titled 'Alert' pops up after a few minutes(!) with the text 'Connection to server imap.gmail.com timed out.'

Comment 1

[Phil Miller]

Still present in Thunderbird 3 Beta 2.

Comment 2

[David E. Ross]

I still see this with newsgroup accounts in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3.  

Of course, the Stop button is known to be non-functional.  That's bug #239616.  

However, if I collapse the newsgroup account that is connected but cannot download, select another account, and expand that second account, I subsequently get a timeout popup for the first account.  My actions should imply that I have closed the first account, causing the attempts to download to cease and thus not having the timeout popup appear.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

phil, can you stilll reproduce?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

David, do you see this when using current version?

Comment 5

[David E. Ross]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk, NI for questions) from comment #4)
> David, do you see this when using current version?

It might take a while.  I have one newsgroup subscription (among three) that sometimes times-out.  This situation is only occasional.  I will have to wait until I see it happen again.

Comment 6

[David E. Ross]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk, NI for questions) from comment #4)
> David, do you see this when using current version?

I think I saw this intermittently today with an E-mail account.  I was trying to check for new messages, but the POP3 server was offline (something that happens too often with my current E-mail hosting service).  I cannot confirm because the server is now back online.